                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN LICENSE GRANTED (§ 62.1-89)

If the Commission shall be of the opinion from all the evidence before it that,
in pursuance of the herein expressed policy of the Commonwealth to encourage
water-power development, the plans of the applicant provide for the greatest
practicable extent of utilization of the waters of the Commonwealth for which
the application is made and that the applicant is financially able to construct
and operate the proposed dam and works and that the general public interest will
be promoted thereby, it shall grant the license to construct and operate the
proposed dam and works.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62-77; 1968, c. 659.